Chapter 8: Dependency

Allucina gasped for air. She felt the force beside her, but her vision only showed blurs of power. She reached over and grabbed the man. She pulled his lips to hers and breathed her pent-up force into his body. His eyes widened as he tried to pull back. As the haze began to fade, she could see him clearer. She felt sorry for the young man. She knew she was taking advantage of an innocent soul, but if she did not, then the surrounding system might be destroyed.

She pulled him close again, pushing the force into him. His eyes rolled back into his head and he collapsed on the floor. She leaned back, flexing her hands and moving the objects in the room. She needed to get in control of her affinity quickly.

She exercised her force abilities for most of the day before Kylo Ren stood back up from where he fell earlier. His face looked flabbergasted, "What did you do to me?"

She smiled, "You want power? I gave it to you. It was just too much for your body to handle. Luckily for you, your bloodline is powerful enough to keep you alive."

He paced the room, hunched and staring at the floor, "You had that much power?"

She smiled, still practicing using the force, "I gave you a taste. It was just a sip to keep the glass from spilling over."

He stopped and turned to Allucina, "What have they been using your power for?"

She opened her eyes to look at him, "You have no idea, do you?" She chuckled as she closed her eyes and flipped her body to the ceiling. "That is unimportant now. The question I only have is whether you will let me go now."

His head snapped to her and he walked, glaring up to her, "Why would I ever let you go? You are our prisoner."

She did not show any movement, but he started gasping for air. She spoke low, "You are not the only one to have been trained with dark intent. I have no quarrels with doing something horrible to escape."

In that moment, the force pulled at the memories lodged deep within her. She saw herself, young and far from innocent. She had to be about three feet tall as she ran through the desert shelf. Her red hair flared behind her, but looked unremarkable amongst the fiery sand. Her pale skin unnaturally never burned in the harsh sunlight. She saw the tortured souls as she entered the old structure. With a smile, she zapped a beetle that crawled across the floor.

"What is this?"

She heard his voice but he did not enter her vision. She responded with a light voice, "Korriban, the Sith Academy. My home." She watched as the little girl went from chamber to chamber, "Due to my abnormal conception, I aged slower than other of our kind. I spent years between the Academy and the edge of space traveling with my mother, Darth Revan. She trained me in the force, but she was also leader of the Sith. I killed many under her command, but I also saved many. I was a dangerous child that could only see two solutions to a problem. Life or death. And I judged them." The vision changed to her older with purple streaks through her red hair. She was in the torture chamber, lightly zapping a man with a gently touch to his nose. She giggled with each touch. She was excited to give him eternal torment. Allucina remembered the man. He had done horrible things to a group of children studying under his command. She could still see their spirits haunting the rooms.

He could see everything, "You did horrible things to horrible people. You are not that frightening."

The vision fell and all the objects around her were frozen midair. He turned back to her as she spoke, "You should be frightened. I find most people horrible." She realized she was no longer force choking him, but did not care.

"So," he questioned, "why don't you just kill me then?"

She scowled at him, "Would you like more power?" He shifted, but did not answer. She took that as a yes, "Then we have a mutual dependency. I need to give away power to survive and you thirst for it."

She let herself free in meditation as he started speaking. She ignored whatever he was spouting as she felt for her other half. He was nowhere close to her. She let out another pulse to help guide him. It will be a while before they were reunited and this child in front of her was the closest living creature that could harness the force without immediately becoming one with it. She had no choice but to depend on him as she retrained her mind.